Joy of buying gifts to loved ones

After a long wait my sister managed came to be with me for a week. Luckily she came on Saturday so we had ample to spend together. We both are staying in same city hardly 10 km from each other but even then can't meet every week because of our commitments. Even If I go to meet her can't stay for more than an hour hostel rule you see.

Due to some function in her college we were able to spent some time together, as she is not participating in any of the event because of her ill health. First we did after coming out of her hostel was to go for shopping. She is going home next month , wanted to sent some gift for dad. Once we were in shop I felt like buying some things for her even. When I asked her to select few things for her she said no, because already bill was high. Ignoring the rising bill I bought few things for her. When reached the billing counter didn't know what but I was feeling to happy. Usually experience it when I shop something for my family members.

When I shop things for my self hardly I get this feeling. Though my basic agenda is to save money but at such moment saving doesn't strike me. It strike me once I receive my credit card bill at the end of the month.

But now I can realize how our parents would have felt when they fulfilled our wishes and desires. Couple of time they have sacrificed their happiness to see smile on our faces. Even now when I go home dad gets all those things which I love to have and mom prepares most delicious food. When we go out they don't allow me to bear expenses saying you save your money but some how my conscious doesn't allow me to do so. Finally payments are done by me.

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Agony of comman man

It has been long since I posted blog time but from now on, have decided to post blog regularly. Life was messy these days forcing me to concentrate fully on myself. My mom did gift me a bike during my graduation days on my birthday. With passing year it had become old but I didn't feel like buying a new one because my attachment to it. But unfortunately I my bike got stolen 2 weeks ago from my house. Was too sad and didn't knew what to do?

First thing I had to do was to file an F.I.R regarding loss of bike. I went to police station with my elder brother to file the complain but to our utter despair, police personnel were not ready to pay deed to our words. They asked us to come in evening as it was too early to file complain, if they may recover the bike then it would be difficult for us to claim it. We went to police station in evening but again their casual approach forced us to leave the place. Seems like police force has forgotten that" F.I.R needs to filed with in 24 hours post occurrence of an incident" .

Next day again I went to police station, this time all alone as my brother was not free. The Inspector started questioning me not regarding my bike but about my profession, my income, family background. Was pretty shocked at his attitude but had to get my work done so has to bear him.When he came to know that I work for media house, a seriousness surrounded him. Inquired more about my company and job profile. The end result of this inquiry was come tomorrow. " A tomorrow which never comes".

I was fed of my frequent visit to police station, finally my brother told me, if they don't file complain today ie 4 days after the incident we will approach higher authority or press media. But before we could use our influence in society they handed us the copy of F.I.R. May they had foreseen their future.

While coming back from police station was wondering ,if I had to struggle so much to get a complain filed, what would be the plight of ordinary man? If educated people have of suffer so much, god only knows what will happen to illiterate people? My visits to police station had some where given a feeling in myself that I had committed some sin. I was their just to perform my duty as a law abiding citizen. But was shocked to see that law protectors has forgotten law. Who needs to be responsible for it?

Recession weapon for employer or curse to employees?

Recession has armed companies to reframe company policies to suit them the best, be it big companies or small firms. All have joined the brigade to torture the employees.

First axe is on their pay package “ no hike till market regain its old glory but their job responsibility has been hiked, as the salary which companies are paying to employees has suddenly become too much to be borne by them”. If employees want to don’t want to under go salary cut its better they take up more responsibility, if not move out. Though the decision is left to employees but they don’t have much say in it.

Second axe on leaves “According to government rules pvt firms are suppose to give 20 leave to their employees annually”. Companies know employees won’t raise voice to any injustice done to them during recession so they have reduced the number of leaves of employees to 10 in a year. They have even axed public holiday challenging the decision of government. Seems like have the law of land for granted.

Third axe on working hours “Employees are expected to put in more hours, without any hike in salary”. Earlier standard working hours in pvt sector firms was 9 hours now has been hiked to10hrs. Even if you complete your work earlier you have warm your seat for 10 hours. In which book has it been mentioned that “spending more hours on at your desk lead to more productivity”.

Can’t understand why companies attitude has changed drastically towards their employees? Why can’t they retain the same attitude which they had towards them during boom? How can an employer expect loyalty from their employees when he himself isn’t loyal? Companies can fire anyone without prior notice but when employees look for a change they need to give notice to company… why?

Its high time companies revamp their ways, else will suffer in future because economy has started recovering, soon will be on track. That time employers shouldn’t complain about the disassociation of their employees from them…

How should raggers be dealt with..?

Ragging has become a national concern in the wake of 2 recent incidents, which rocked the nation at large. But why do people wake up only when some loses his life or an attempt to suicide is done? Why don’t people wake much before to avoid such incidents? Parents should take proactive measure to find a cure for this menace to avoid regression at later stages. Every year lakhs of student enroll themselves to various colleges for various courses, but nobody bothers to enquire about anti ragging measures in colleges. Students take it for granted, thinking will tackle it when the situation arises. But ragging is an inevitable part of the curriculum which doesn’t attract much of attention of student in comparison to other subjects.

Only few parents try to inquire about the past history of the colleges, especially in terms of incidents of ragging. Even then such incidents keep happening why? Colleges give assurance to parents at the time of admission that ragging is not permitted in their colleges and all precautionary measures have been taken into consideration to tackle with raggers. If these assurances were really trustworthy, then incidents of ragging should surface but in reality freshers are ragged by their senior’s and colleges are not aware about it, till some untoward incident occur. Reason for it is that college authority take responsibility of students only for their campus and classrooms, hostels are often overlooked by them. Incidents of ragging are reported only in hostel in comparison to any other place.

Though Supreme Court has come out with ruling to deal with raggers and the colleges supporting it, but seems like students have not taken it seriously. I feel capital punishment should be awarded to those students who indulge in ragging, it shouldn’t be treated as an attempt to death only then students will fear it and deter from it, at least thinking about the intensity of their deeds. In colleges where ragging is reported, affiliations of the college should be cancelled.

Selection of hostel warden should be done on strict criteria. In case of ragging they should also be treated as culprit in crime and be executed accordingly. Hostels for seniors and freshers should be at distance and should have adequate security for the safety of students.

All these could be few suggestions, but to get it implemented we need to stand united to fight for this cause. Parents and students need to take a lead in this regard. Each of us will have to ragging one day or other, either to us directly or to our kids indirectly.

Traffic cops mere statue of greed at government’s expenses

Yesterday while going out to meet my friends I was caught by traffic cops at a signal, It was red light then also he asked me to drive further and move towards the either end causing trouble to other commuters. Promptly asked for documents of vechile, immediately it was produced to him. As I am driving a vehicle which has not been registered in Karnataka I am always at the receiving end so I carry all the documents with me promptly every time I go out. The thing which irritated me to the core was that he was trying to create a loop hole in a document to get extract money from me. He was scrutinising the documents in such that for a second I felt he is going to some very important official document. But reality was something different he was trying to make way to warm his pocket.

I am not accusing him for doing his duty but am surprised at the way how he carrying it out at a time when Bangalore has been put on red alert in the wake of terrorist attack in Mumbai and reports suggesting sure shot attack on Bangalore. How can they behave in such a manner. It vehicle are supposed to be let all vehicles be checked but he was just trying to locate few vechiles which had other state registration number plates & bikes with young couples. Easy preys to extract money. Is this what we call checking of vehicles at a time when city is prone to terrorist attacks anytime especially on weekends, when movement of people are bit high throughout the city?

No doubt why, India is a soft target for terrorist to terrorise the people and the nation as a whole. Mumbai attack has clearly proved it that terrorists will try to conceal their identity by making them a part of the surrounding or the area where they land up. In such a situation do you think that they will ever try to use those vehicles which could easily catch attention of the cops. I don’t think they will do any such foolish act rather they would prefer to use a vehicle with local registration, which traffic cops don’t check most of the time. Even if they are caught by cops they will grease they traffic cops with money to which they are more loyal to than their uniform or their motherland.

God forbid but, if Bangalore comes under terror attacks, who would be responsible for it? Because arms and ammunition will be shifted from one location to other through roads only, where we find such greedy people, who don’t even think twice before endangering the life of innocent people who rely upon them for their safety. Don’t you feel now that government is just wasting their money and energy in maintaining a force of cops at the stake lives of innocent people. We are paying tax to government for the facilities rendered to us in terms of good roads, airports etc but unknowingly a fraction of this money is also being given to these cops who are ever ready to put our life at stake ,i.e we are contributing money towards our insecurity even.

Millon dollar question what we should do as citizens of a law abiding country to protect our interest when government is inefficient to do it in the desired way?

Petrol prices close to 90$ barrel...Why no hue and cry..?

When petrol prices reached closed to 145$ a barrel, there was big hue and cry from petroleum companies demanding government to raise the price of petrol. They compelled govt to hike the price of petrol, which led to great resentment among the people. As prices of all other commodities were hiked simultaneously especially at restaurants and all eatery places. All leading airlines hiked their fares drastically, claiming to be incurring heavy losses. Statements made by airlines companies clearly indicated that, they are hiking fares as its the last option available to them.

Political parties tried to cash this opportunity, by blaming the ruling government for their inefficiency to manage the price of petrol. As a result congress lost its power in Karnataka and BJP came to power.

Now when the price of petrol has come down close to 90$ a barrel, then why aren't oil companies pressurizing government to reduce the price? Why aren't airline companies reducing their fare? All of them are now reaping good profit, so no hue and cry, let the masses suffer. But no sooner will they suffer smallest of loss they will raise voice to safeguard their concern.

Who will raise voice for the masses now, I feel no one. They will have to stand for themselves to safeguard their interest at best. But the most important question at stake is that even if government reduces the price of petrol, will restaurant owners and airline companies reduce the prices from their end. I don't think so because very rarely we can witness a roll down in prices of commodities which has gone up.

In all these development I feel the lone suffers are the masses as they have no one to stand for them and they themselves are so busy that they are not able to find time for themselves. Why should they suffer so much..and for whom..?

Termination..a weapon or necessity...?

Earlier people preferred govt job in comparison to pvt jobs due to various reason, one among them was job security, i.e they are sure that they won't be terminated from service for small issues, maximum could be suspension for few days. Termination is taken back in couple of days or month, but a person never losses his/her job. In govt jobs people can enjoy life as they don't have much work to be done, even if they have work they postpone it another day, salary is also less.

But now people prefer pvt jobs in comparison to govt job due to reason like high salary and growth opportunity. But they have "a sword hanging on their head" sword of uncertainty of job. You don't know when you will be terminated from service, which much reason to justify the cause of the action. I know its difficult for you to digest it but its true,its the harsh reality of so called corporate world.

How can companies forget the contribution done these employees to the growth of the company in one shot? When ever employees tries to raise voice against such polices of the companies they it was termination of a particular employee was a necessity of the company. It was a necessity for the betterment of the company,can digest this statement. How can termination of an become a necessity for an organization?If so, they should give reason to substantiate their deeds. Most of the time companies try to wrap up the issue at the earliest, leading to strong suspicion in the mind of other employees of the organization.

Such acts by the company indicate the employees about their worth to the organization. So next time when you join any company, ensure it up that company values the worth to its employees. So that termination could be used for blunders and not for silly mistakes which could be done away with warning.